Browse and adapt hundreds of standards-aligned lesson plans for K–12 classrooms. Lessons encourage students to make local connections to global news stories, while strengthening skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and communication. Click here to send feedback to our team.
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Students explore how environmental degradation disproportionately affects marginalized communities, reflect on the sacredness of water, and create art to communicate a message of environmentalism.
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Historical Trauma
Students will examine and discuss reporting about vaccination efforts in Ghana and Chicago to better understand the relationship between medical racism and vaccine hesitancy among people of color.
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Examining Challenges to Reproductive Freedom
Students will build their knowledge of the challenges people face when trying to access abortions. They will then use research, writing, and media literacy skills to make local and global connections.
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Examining Peacebuilding as a Framework
Students will examine peacebuilding efforts in Chicago and Colombia, looking at how peacebuilding can be used as a framework to address the underlying causes of conflict, heal trauma, and prevent the...
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Unpacking the Symbolism of Monuments and Memorials
Students explore the relevance of monuments, street names, and memorials as symbols in the context of racial justice.
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Visualizing Colonialism's Impact on Deforestation
Students examine the relationship between colonialism, governmental policy, and deforestation in order to evaluate conservation strategies and/or create their own graphic timelines of deforestation.
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Using Pulitzer Center Reporting to Examine the SDGs
Students will explore and discuss the SDGs and Pulitzer Center-supported reporting that connects to all 17 goals. They will then use research, writing, and art skills to engage with the reporting.
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Understanding the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
Students will examine short videos from PBS NewsHour to understand factors that led to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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Students watch the short documentary "Moving Migrants" and examine the connections between migration, climate change, and gender in Bangladesh.
